Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken with Jeera(Cumin flavored) Rice.

Butter chicken is one of the most popular dish from India.

Silky,creamy gravy with boneless chicken pieces.What else you can ask for!This sinful curry has always been one of the kid's favorites.

You can get thousand's of recipes for butter chicken on the internet with slight variations.But this recipe of mine is really simple ,developed by sheer experimenting.I can guarantee that the taste is just the same as the one you get from restaurants.

So here we go..

Ingredients

Boneless chicken -500g

Butter-25g

Onion -2 medium sized

Green Chili -2 nos

Ginger Garlic paste-2 tsp

Cardamom powder-1tsp

sugar-1tsp

Tomato puree-1 cup

Yogurt-1tbsp

Red food color-(Optional )-2 drops

Dry Fenugreek leaves-a pinch

Cream-2 tbsp

Red chili powder-1 -2 tsp

Coriander powder-1 tsp

Fresh Cilantro- bountiful

Cumin powder-1 tsp

Method of preparation

Step1

Marinate boneless chicken with a pinch of chili powder and salt.(Keep aside for 1/2 hr )

Lightly fry this in 1 tsp butter.Keep aside.

Step2

Make a fine paste of onion and green chili.

In a sauce pan,melt butter.Add in ginger garlic paste.Fry it until light brown.Now saute onion paste for 3 minutes.Now saute 1 cup tomato puree.Add salt,red chili powder,cumin powder,coriander powder.

Add yogurt into this and saute until oil separates.Add the chicken pieces.

Now add in 1 tsp sugar and fenugreek leaves(Kasuri methi).

Add in enough water for a thick gravy .

Boil until chicken is well done and the gravy starts thickening.

Add 1tsp cardamom powder and 2 tbsp cream(U can reduce the amount of cream,or even replace it with milk)

Add plenty of cilantro.

Finally add 2 drops of food color if you feel the gravy is not very reddish.

Enjoy this silky creamy butter chicken with cumin rice.Recipe is coming soon.

Those vegetarians out there,I have the same curry with Cottage cheese for you,please check out Here-

"Happy Eating!"